I haven't flown since TSA made copping a feel legal (and will avoid it if humanly possible until they are history). However, my 70 + year old mother travels frequently and won't go through the scanners (radiation) and gets felt up pretty often. It has nothing to do with appearance, IMO.

It upsets me greatly to read about them touching children and the elderly, especially, but I'm against these checks for everybody except those with suspicious behaviors or other warning flags.

I'm planning to fly back to the Philippines in March. (The TSA agents will be searching me.)

Should I plan to get raped, too?

You say that jokingly but I have had the lovely experience of having one of the pat downs and let me tell you I don't care why they were doing it, it was a violation of my human rights. There has to be some kind of criteria for deciding who gets patted down, like DebMar, I don't think people over 75 should be subject, or children under a certain age. A determined suspect will get something through if they want to. Ironically, the time I was "patted down" I had a forbidden fingernail clipper in my pocket, and they didn't find it. It wasn't on purpose, I just forgot it was there.

Is any doctor performing a prostrate check or checking for cervical cancer considered a rapist? What about any officer (prison, border guard, police, et al) doing a cavity check?

Any nurse or caregiver giving the one they are caring for a suppository?

These knee-jerk reactions are the same reactions that give 14 year-olds permanent criminal records and have them registered as sex offenders for photographing their own body.

You can choose to have a medical screening, or not. You can choose to have a suppository or not. Wait till YOU get to have one, or talk to someone first hand who has had one, and I would be willing to met cash money you change your tune.

You can choose to have a medical screening, or not. You can choose to have a suppository or not. Wait till YOU get to have one, or talk to someone first hand who has had one, and I would be willing to met cash money you change your tune.

There has to be some kind of criteria for deciding who gets patted down, like DebMar, I don't think people over 75 should be subject, or children under a certain age.

The moment they stop checking people under or over a certain age is the moment that terrorists will decide that members of that group are the perfect vehicles for bombs. Simple as that. It's not a violation of your human rights. You do not have to fly. Humans got by for quite a while before commercial flights were possible. You can stay home.

There has to be some kind of criteria for deciding who gets patted down, like DebMar, I don't think people over 75 should be subject, or children under a certain age.

The moment they stop checking people under or over a certain age is the moment that terrorists will decide that members of that group are the perfect vehicles for bombs. Simple as that. It's not a violation of your human rights. You do not have to fly. Humans got by for quite a while before commercial flights were possible. You can stay home.